Apple Pie in a Bag

Good Housekeeping's famous recipe from 1961. We've updated it to bake the pie in a plastic oven-cooking bag, which is safer and simple than the brown bag originally called for.

Total Time: 1:15

Cook: 1:15

Level:
Moderate

Serves:
10

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Ingredients

8 medium Golden Delicious apples

0.50 tsp. ground cinnamon

0.75 c. sugar

0.50 c. all-purpose flour

1 frozen 9-inch pie shell

0.50 c. butter or margarine

1 large oven-cooking bag (20" by 14") with nylon tie

Directions

Peel, core, and thinly slice apples to make 8 heaping cups.

In large bowl, toss apples with cinnamon, 1/4 cup sugar, and 3 tablespoons flour. Fill pie shell with apple mixture, piling them high in center.

In small bowl, with hand, knead margarine or butter, remaining 1/2 cup sugar, and 1/2 cup flour into a soft dough. Pull dough into small pieces; flatten each slightly and arrange on top of apple mixture. (It is not necessary to completely cover the apple mixture.) Insert several wooden skewers (about 4 inches tall) in pie so that oven-cooking bag will not touch top of pie during baking.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Place pie in oven-cooking bag. Close bag with nylon tie; cut six 1/2-inch slits in top of bag. Place pie in jelly-roll pan or on cookie sheet. Set pan on rack in center of oven (make sure bag does not touch oven walls or oven racks). Bake pie 1 hour and 15 minutes or until top of pie is golden brown.

Remove pie from oven, bag and all. Carefully, with kitchen shears, cut bag open. Remove pie from bag. (The bottom of the bag will be greasy!) Set pie on plate on wire rack to cool.